Today is the day we celebrate the life of a powerful man, gone too soon. So much of the television/ magazine/ newspaper interviews over the past few days have raved about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and how much of an impact he made on the US landscape in regards to the civil rights movement. 50 year anniversary this coming April of a light extinguished too soon.
Many of the segments are also saying that if MLK were alive today that he would be so sad, that America probably would not be in our current 45 situation, because MLK would have FOUGHT with all of his might to ensure that we would NOT be where we are today.
He would have FOUGHT to ensure that hatred would not be what seems to be ALLOWED to quickly seep into the landscape of our country's quilt.
He would not have ALLOWED for hateful rhetoric to be allowed a voice and embraced as okay.
He would have encouraged all of us to find a way to:
Lay down the burden of race.
Lay down the burden of separation because of skin color, gender, or sexual orientation as it occurs today with so much fire.
He would have been a part of the framework trying to find a way for all of us to lay down the burden of HATE.
I do firmly believe our country would be different if he were still alive.
Our country landscape would be entirely different today if he were still fighting for the unjust actions of others.
Our world would be entirely different, I think if he were to be here among us providing guidance.
Leading with LOVE.
So how do we move forward from here without anger, without bitterness and hatred?
We must move forward and find our voice.
We must find within ourselves the voice, the drive, the courage to stand up and fight for what we believe is RIGHT, and GOOD, and TRUE.
We have got to embrace forgiveness.
We must embrace the idea of speaking up when we see WRONG, when we KNOW in our heart that something MUST be done.
We have to embrace fighting for what we believe in, not in a moment of bloodshed, but in peace.
We have to learn to be okay with being uncomfortable for things to change.
And we cannot forget.
This country was built on JUSTICE FOR ALL...not just the select few.
This song moves me so MUCH!!!!!!!! It speaks to me so deeply.
And I think it can and should become an undercurrent, a life's theme song for us all on many levels...
I am grateful for men and women of all races, of all creeds, of all life journeys with the passion, the drive, the foresight to see the problems/ issues around us, pick up the torch, and move forward doing what needs to be done to make tomorrow a better places for ALL.
We must figure this out and come together.
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